Raigmore Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that there are "positive relationships between children and staff" and that children are "keen to learn." However, the report evaluates all four quality indicators for both the primary school and nursery class as "weak," indicating significant challenges in leadership, teaching, wellbeing, and attainment.

Strengths

• Staff demonstrate a "caring, nurturing approach" which supports children to be "happy and settled."
• Children across the school are "keen to learn" and "welcome opportunities to engage" in school life.
• There are "positive relationships between children and staff" in both the nursery and school.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders must "improve the strategic leadership" by regularly reviewing progress and tracking how changes lead to improvement.
• All staff should work together to improve the "quality and consistency of learning, teaching and assessment," ensuring activities are "motivating" and matched to individual needs.
• Senior leaders must ensure clear, regularly reviewed plans are in place for children with additional support needs and strengthen the role of class teachers.
• Staff should use progress information more effectively to "raise attainment in literacy and numeracy" across the school and nursery.

Safeguarding

The report does not explicitly detail safeguarding arrangements, though it notes that the evaluation for "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" is "weak" and that the school requires "additional support and more time to make necessary improvements."